5 Cost-Efficient, Flexible Open Source Resources for Cloud

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Det har tit forundret mig hvor meget man kan opnå ved at dele. Open Source er i sig selv en eller anden form for modstrid imod hvad vi som mennesker normalt foretager os, men vi gør det aligevel ... muligvis fordi der er noget som er endnu større ...
/Sik

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It has over and over again made me wonder how and why sharing works. Open Source is in it's self some kind of contradiction and is some how unusual compared to what we humans normally do but we do it anyway ... perhaps because there is something even bigger ...
/Sik

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Sam Dean

Joyent/Reasonably Smart. As GigaOm and OStatic discussed just this week, Joyent has purchasedReasonably Smart, a fledgling open source cloud startup based on JavaScript and Git. "While on the surface it might look like simple industry consolidation, Reasonably Smart’s technology will in fact help Joyent compete with emerging service-centric clouds while retaining an open model that makes developers comfortable," says Alistair Croll on GigaOm. Joyent's CEO is adamant that Reasonably Smart's technology will stay open source.

Globus Nimbus. Globus Nimbus is an open source toolkit that allows businesses to turn clusters into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. The Amazon EC2 interface is carried over, but is not the only interface you can choose. Globus Nimbushas just come out with a new release.

Reservoir. Reservoir is the main European research initiative on virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing, according to Ignacio Martin Llorente. He adds: "The aim of this project is to develop the open-source technology to enable deployment and management of complex IT services across different administrative domains. Its open-source approach will support the definition of open standards for cloud computing, breaking the lock-in imposed by vendors today and allowing any organization to build its own local or public cloud infrastructure."

OpenNebula. "OpenNebula is an open source virtual infrastructure engine that enables the dynamic deployment and re-placement of virtual machines on a pool of physical resources," according to project leads. The OpenNebula VM Manager is a core component of Reservoir. "This open-source alternative to commercial tools for VM management provides an efficient, dynamic and scalable management of VMs within datacenters, private clouds, involving a large amount of virtual and physical servers," writes Llorente. "OpenNebula can interface with a remote cloud site, being the only tool able to access on-demand to Amazon EC2 for dynamic scaling the local infrastructure based on actual usage."

It's good to see open source tools and resources competing in the cloud computing space. The end result should be more flexibility for organizations that want to customize their approaches. Open source cloud offerings also have the potential to keep pricing for all competitive services on a level playing field.

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